Anne Rice: The Srsly Wat round-up

[rebness]

A few weeks ago, I posted some absurd ranting from everyone's favourite Diminishing Returns author wherein she wondered how to 'stop manga'. I promised some hapless flist person (I forgot whom) that I'd post some of her greatest hits. Except I realised something as I picked out some great examples of the craziness on that wall... the fans on there are often way worse than her.

Here, have some of my favourite posts. Plus the Dreaded Nicki One.




Gagging right now. This was my favourite childhood poem. You've tainted it, you brown-noser.





*Wordless hand gestures*




To be fair, he was asking for it.

 



Man. I really hope people come to my Facebook page to tell me all about smiths.






This guy is the most annoying person on Facebook. He's trying to promote some failtastic vampire novel but does it by having three troll accounts who constantly reply to his posts with 'omg Lucian/Den I'm running out to buy your new book right now.' Today, he really, really wants to know what the biggest scandal of the church is.





Do not get me wrong. Louis is ~totes~ my favourite character in the entire VC but this does not diminish Nicki! I regard Nicki as hugely important to the whole Louis/Lestat tempest and believe that what happened with him haunts Lestat deeply. Why is he reduced to some dim 'adolescent'? I guess Our Conversation was about My Chemical Romance and smoking weed. >:|

 


Anne kept calling Tea Party members Tea Baggers. One of them objected because they didn't like the name. She Googled it. :D





Reads like a list of works plagiarised for the later books.

Comments

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm showing my ignorance here but - Tea Party?

I do know what a tea bagger is. I found that out when I asked some people in my class if they remember Tea-bag for the TV show. And they were like 'no but we remember what tea bagging is from Sex and the City'

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Heehee.

I'm just going to copy and paste because I'm lazy and not good at explaining:

The Tea Party movement (TPM) is an American populist political movement which is generally recognized as conservative and libertarian, and has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009. It endorses reduced government spending, opposition to taxation in varying degrees, reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit, and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the United States Constitution.

The name "Tea Party" is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773 and demonstrated by dumping British tea taken from docked ships into the harbour. Some commentators have referred to the Tea in "Tea Party" as the bacronym "Taxed Enough Already".

[timeofnoreply.livejournal.com]

Except for the part where the Tea Baggers (and I refuse to call them anything else) completely miss the point of what the Boston Tea Party was actually about. It wasn't a patriotic act - it was actually a bunch of rich idiot businessmen who decided that they didn't feel like paying the tax imposed by the Tea Act and would rather pay through the nose for smuggled tea that came in. By the way, said Tea Act stated that Britain would refund 4/5 the price it cost for the East India Company to ship the tea to America, therefore allowing it to be sold at a cheaper price than smuggled tea. In a nutshell, all it was doing was eliminating the middleman in the whole tea-importing process to make it cheaper for the American consumers.

The resulting Boston Tea Party only served to piss the British government the righteous fuck off and impose more taxes. Good going, morons.

Win!

[rebness.livejournal.com]

Hahahaa. Next time I'm in America, I want to drop in on you with a bottle of wine (or three) and discuss history and the sheer fuckwittedness of mankind till the small hours.

Re: Win!

[timeofnoreply.livejournal.com]

That would be the best!

[versailles-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. Here in the US, the Tea Party is a right-wing subgroup of the Republican party. One of their loudest leaders is Sarah Palin, the once governor of the State of Alaska. The term Tea Party comes from the Boston Tea Party, when radical colonist dressed up like Native Americans, boarded ships and tossed tea crates into Boston Harbor to protest taxes. It was a colossal waste of tea and pissed off Loopy King George lll.

So now you know.

[ashling-c.livejournal.com]

Palin? *shudder*

Thanks for the info :)